Books Reviewed e41 resist and counter law enforcement and its arbitrariness. After São
Paulo's Military Police squad, the ROTA, massacred 111 prisoners in the Carandiru prison in …

It has become almost cliché to emphasize that Brazil has one of the world's highest homicide
rates and that the police contribute in large part to the endemic cycle of violence. It is often …

At the base of Denyer Willis's findings is a chilling argument about sovereignty in São Paulo:
today there is no monopoly on violence in the city; it is shared between the state and São …

BOOK REVIEWS 1250 of the state in highly violent urban settings? In The Killing
Consensus, Graham Denyer-Willis grapples with these and other key questions. Drawing on …

We hold many assumptions about police work—that it is the responsibility of the state, or that
police officers are given the right to kill in the name of public safety or self-defense. But in …

Set in Sfo Paolo, Brazil, The Killing Consensus by Graham Denyer Willis examines the
unique spatial and social configurations in which killing citizens is a shared and everyday …

The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in
Urban Brazil is a tremendous little book about who has the right to discipline and kill. In an …

Abstract The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and
Death in Urban Brazil by Graham Denyer Willis Paperback, 192 pages REVIEWED BY BILL …

Policing is widely understood, empirically and theoretically, as a core function of the state.
Much of the knowledge presumes that police are the only body that may kill and arbitrate …

The practices of the Brazilian police force supersede the most macabre imagination and turn
Brazil into an open graveyard. From the Argentinean border to the north limit with Guyana …